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Re: Fire Extinguisher - Landlord Forum thread 356410

Re: Fire Extinguisher by Garry (Iowa) on March 10, 2018 @07:50

                              
I'm guessing that you are talking about businesses that are either open to the general public, such as Walmart, Sears, Subway, office buildings, schools,etc. , or manufacturing places, like car companies, John Deere, small manufacturing places, etc. Places that have EMPLOYEES on site, that are trained to operate fire extinguishers.

And, yes, it's possible that some states even require larger apartment complexes to train their maintenance people to use fire ext. And in some cases where a mom and pop rental operation only owns 3 units or less, they may be exempt from what you are talking about. But having a fire ext. on site, is always better than NOT having one, no matter who owns it. My city requires ALL rental properties to have a fire ext. on site, and we must replace it after 10 years (there is always a man. date on it somewhere).
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Re: Fire Extinguisher by Kat (WI) on March 11, 2018 @01:29 [ Reply ]
Nope. the ordinance is specific to rentals and didn't include any exemptions for smaller properties. If you provide the extinguisher in a multi-family dwelling (even if it just a 2 or 3 family multifamily) you have to provide a trained person to operate it.
    Re: Fire Extinguisher by Garry (Iowa) on March 11, 2018 @10:01 [ Reply ]
    So all a LL needs to do , is tell the T he(LL), is not providing a fire ext., and the T can get one if they wish, at their own expense. The T can get their own training too, at their expense. Case closed.
      Re: Fire Extinguisher by Kat (Wi) on March 12, 2018 @00:41 [ Reply ]
      That is what we did. After we fired the handyman who took it upon himself to buy extinguishers, give to tenants and install in units and bill us. We gave the extinguishers as gifts to the tenants and fired that handyman.

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